Handle



L K. HURPORD.

' HANDLE FOR LADLES OR DIPPERS.

(No Model.)

v No. 370,395. Patented Sept; 27, 1887.

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ATTORNEY UNITED STATES PATENT Fries.

LEWIS K. HUBFORD, OF CANTON, OHIO.

HANDLE FOR LADLES OR DIPPERS.

SPECIPICATION- forming part of Letters Patent No. 370.395, datedSeptember 27, 1887.

Application filed January 20, 1887. Serial No. 224,953. (No model.)

. T at whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEWIs K. HURFORD, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Canton, county of Stark, State of Ohio, have inventeda new and useful Improvement in Handles for Ladies or Dippers, of whichthe following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference beinghad to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification.

My invention relates to improvements in handles for ladles or clippers;and it consists of the hereinafter-described handle-socket and itsadaptation to a ladle.

Figure 1 is an isometrical view of one form of my improved handlesoeketas applied to a ladle. Fig. 2 is same view of the skeleton. socketdetached. Fig. 3 is a side elevation showing a section of a handle andhandlesocket attached to a ladle and provided with means for supportingthe ladle to the rim of the kettle.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all of thedrawings.

Letter A represents a handle, which may be made of wood or othersuitable material, but preferably of wood, as it'is comparativelyinexpensive.

The skeleton socket B may be made of cast malleable metal, or may be cutfrom sheets of metal and stamped or pressed into form, as shown. Thesaid socket B is conical in form longitudinally and semicircular incross-section, and is provided with clinch-fingers a, and terminates inan upwardly, outwardly, and

g downwardly curved shank, O, the free end of which is adapted by theplate D for engagement with a ladle, E, or other hand-vessel, and may beconnected thereto by rivets, as shown in Fig. 1, or may be solderedthereto, if preferable.

The handle A, preferably of hard wood, is

' turned tapering and adapted to the taper of the socket B. This handleis placed in the socket and the fingers a are firmly clinched about it,so as to embrace and firmly secure the handle in position.

In Fig. 2 is shown the socket as hereinbefore described, butin additionshowing, in connection with the riveting-plate D, clinch-fingers b,adapted to be clinched down over the upper edge of the ladle E and madeto embrace the turned or wired edge thereof, taking a firm hold of saidturned andwired edge, and

thereby greatly strengthening the connection The handle-socket may beconstructed and' employed either with or without one or both of thefeatures described in thelast two paragraphs. I

For use on small ladles or hand-dippers the form of socket shown in Fig.1 may be used to advantage, and for a medium-sized ladle the fingers bmay be used in addition to great advantage, and for that class or gradeof ladles that are constantly in use the finger 0? may be used, and isof greatvalue, as theladle may, when not in use, be suspended over thetop of the kettle, and the liquid of whatever sort may drip back fromthe ladle to that in the kettle, thus avoiding a large amount of wasteand providing means by which the ladle may be held in position ready foruse at all times. I would recommend, also, the use of the fingers I),well clinched down over the wired edge of the ladle, as being a moreconvenient and economical construction for securing the socket to theladlethan rivets.

I am aware that a socket has hitherto been constructed by providing aplate having a cylindrical form with lugs or spurs adapted to beclinched around a rod or bar inserted in the socket, and hence do notclaim such con struction, broadly.

Having thus fully described my invention,

what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, ,is

1. The herein-described handle socket for ladles and the like,consisting, essentially, of the longitudinally-tapering portion B,semicircular in cross-section and provided with clinch-fingers a, andthe shank 0,-projecting upwardly and rearwardly from the portion B," andterminating in a downwardly-projecting plate, D, for its attachment tothe bowl of the ladle, the whole constructed in the manner and for thepurpose substantially as set forth.

2. In'a ladle or dipper handle, the combination of the handle-socket B,with its clinch tion of the handle-socket B, with its clincharms, thehandle A, adapted thereto, the up- 15 wardly, outwardly, and downwardlyprojected shank G, plate D, fingers b, and finger d, substantially asdescribed, and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my 20 hand this 16th day ofDecember, A. D. 1886.

LEWIS K. HURFORD.

Witnesses:

CHAS. R. MILLER,- W. K. MILLER.

